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On the eve of the CETA vote, members of the “Progressive Caucus” organised a conference in the European Parliament with the title “Reasons and Means to Reject CETA”. Stop TTIP was invited to give an account of the European movement against CETA and TTIP.

We are delighted at the great result of the Austrian popular initiative against the neoliberal trade agreements TTIP, CETA and TiSA. It proves that people, when they have a voice, will clearly demand that democracy is not eroded by corporate privileges.

With the EU Parliament’s final vote on CETA (the EU-Canada trade deal) fast approaching, pro-CETA groups are flooding their media streams with advertisements and appeals. Despite the millions of concerned citizens and numerous warnings from experts across Europe; Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and many Social Democrats are backing this deal. While most Social Democrats have chosen to remain silent about the issue, hoping no one will notice, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are taking a pro-active approach to promote what they call “a gold standard trade deal”. But what is behind their arguments?

In one last step before the final plenary vote, the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) voted in favour of CETA. A majority of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in INTA decided to steam full-speed ahead with this deal, disregarding a risk to 90 million jobs (which the Committee on Employment verified in early December) and instead favouring multinational corporations.

About the campaign

We are an alliance of more than 500 European organisations running campaigns and actions against TTIP and CETA. We believe that these two trade and investment agreements must be stopped because they pose a threat to democracy, the rule of law, the environment, health, public services as well as consumer and labour rights.

Trade agreements are very complex and can sometimes be difficult to understand. If you are looking for some detailled information on TTIP and CETA, have a look at our answers to some of the most important questions!

Over the past years, a lot of in-depth research has been done on TTIP and CETA. In order to help you find your way through all these informations we have assembled a list of some of the most important sources, which are definitely worth having a look at!

Stop TTIP hands 3,284,289 signatures to Martin Schulz

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This map shows how the number of signatures is divided by countries. The darker the blue, the higher the number. The self-organised European Citizens’ Initiative Stop TTIP collected signatures from 7 October 2014 to 6 October 2015. In total, we collected 3,284,289 signatures and surpassed the minimum amount of signatures required for an ECI to be successful in 23 EU Member states. You can find the full results here. Since 7 October 2015 we continue collecting signatures under the new name “European Initiative” (See blog for more information).